Thank you Phil. Someone, I think it was mark_elert from pbase told me to creep closer to get a closeup (I had another pix posted before) and I did that.
This "from the side vantage" works for you, as does the focusing, because it allows you to throw the rhythms of the sharply defined waving, colorful, branches of this purple plant against the softly focused gold plant in the bckground. This is called selective focusing -- focusing used to organize a picture for meaning. If everything was sharp, you would have had chaos. The interplay of purple and and softly focused gold works beautifully here.
